Nathaniel Cline

Future presidential campaign rallies are uncertain in Virginia

Federal law requires the Commonwealth to provide all children, including migrants, “equal access” to a public education.

The departments are slated to release the final guidance by Sept. 16 of this year. The order directs school boards to adopt the policies by Jan. 1, 2025, or before.

Following the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, lawmakers passed legislation requiring colleges and universities to establish threat assessment teams to help prevent violence on campus.

The colleges and universities that have received approval from the state will offer specialized instruction in areas such as computer science and technology.

Under the proposed plan, Virginia will begin collecting data for the new performance framework starting in August. Results will be released during the 2025-26 school year.

According to Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, 7% of EZ-Pass users in Northern Virginia surveyed don’t use the toll routes because of their design and layout.

Ferrum College joins more than a dozen institutions that are not being considered, including Eastern Shore Community College and Hampton University.

Virginia’s latest spending plan includes efforts to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to a prominent transportation agency in Northern Virginia, toll relief in Hampton Roads and highway widening along a stretch of Interstate 81 in Southwest Virginia.

On May 10, the Shenandoah County School Board reversed a 2020 decision by a previous board to rebrand two schools previously named after Confederate Generals Turner Ashby, Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.